Text 1Come, you faithful, raise the strainOf triumphant gladness;God has brought His IsraelInto joy from sadness;Loosed from Pharoah’s bitter yokeJacob’s sons and daughters;Led them with unmoistened footThrough the Red Sea waters. 2‘Tis the spring of souls today;Christ has burst His prison,And from three days’ sleep in deathAs a sun has risen;All the winter of our…
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Text 1Come, you faithful, raise the strainOf triumphant gladness;God has brought His peopleNow rejoice, Jerusalem,And with true affectionWelcome in unwearied strainsJesus’ resurrection. 2‘Tis the spring of souls today;Christ has burst His prisonFrom the frost and gloom of deathlight and life have risenAll the winter of our sins,Long and dark, is flyingFrom His light, to whom…
Text 1And have the bright immensitiesReceived our risen Lord,Where light years frame the PleiadesAnd point Orion’s sword?Do flaming suns His footsteps traceThro’ corridors sublime,The Lord of inter stellar spaceAnd conqueror of time? 2The heav’n that hides Him from our sightKnows neither near nor far;A little candle sheds its lightAs surely as a star.And where His…
Text 1Alleluia! sing to Jesus! His the scepter, His the throne.Alleluia! His the triumph, His the victory alone.Hark! the songs of peaceful Zion thunder like a mighty flood.Jesus out of every nation has redeemed us by His blood. 2Alleluia! not as orphans are we left in sorrow now;Alleluia! He is near us, faith believes, nor…
Text 1Christ the Lord is risen today, Alleluia!Sons of man and angels say, Alleluia!Raise your joys and triumphs high, Alleluia!Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply, Alleluia! 2Lives again our glorious King, Alleluia!Where, O death, is now thy sting? Alleluia!Once he died our souls to save, Alleluia!Where’s thy victory, boasting grave? Alleluia! 3Love’s redeeming work is…
Text 1Look, you saints, the sight is glorious,See the Man of sorrows now;From the fight returned victorious,Every knee to Him shall bow.Crown Him! Crown Him! Crown Him!Crown Him! Crown Him! Crown Him!Crowns become the victor’s brow.Crowns become the victor’s brow. 2Crown the Savior! angels crown Him!Rich the trophies Jesus brings;On the seat of power enthrone…